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The End is Nigh (Again): How Media Alarmism Numbs Voters

The End is Nigh (Again): How Media Alarmism Numbs Voters

Posted on April 9, 2025August 20, 2025 by Ella Johnson

On January 28, 2025, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock forward one second toward midnight, bringing the world 89 seconds to nuclear apocalypse. The idea of the apocalypse is nothing new, whether or not one has the misfortune of regular media notifications. In December 2012, half the world was convinced that the […]

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